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IMAIZUMI, Naoko
 
Affiliation
Affiliated organization, Global Education Center
Job title
Research Associate
Degree
Master of Education ( Waseda University )

Research Experience

  • 2024.04
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    Now

    Waseda University   Global Education Center   Research Associate

  • 2021.04
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    2024.03

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science   JSPS Research Fellow

Committee Memberships

  • 2022.06
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    Now

    Japan Comparative Education Society  Early Career Researcher Network Committee

Professional Memberships

  • 2023.05
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    Now

    日本ドイツ学会

  • 2022.07
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    Now

    Japanese Educational Research Association

  • 2021
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    Now

    The Japnese Society Curriculum Studies

  • 2021
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    Now

    日本公民教育学会

  • 2021
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    Now

    Japan Comparative Education Society

Research Areas

  • Sociology of education   政治教育・民主主義教育 / Education   政治教育・民主主義教育

Research Interests

  • 市民性教育

  • political neutrality

  • Überparteilchkeit

  • Kontroversität

  • Democracy

  • civic education

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Awards

  • GPJE Poster Award

    2023.06   Society for Civic Education Didactics and Civic Youth and Adult Education   Criticism of Political Neutrality in Japan Using the Concepts of "Überparteilichkeit" and Controversy in Germany

    Winner： Naoko Imaizumi

  • Research Award

    2022.06   The Japanese Association for Civic Education   Civic Education based on "Kontroversität" in Germany: Considering the Theoretical Basis for Teaching Controversial Political Issues in the Classroom

 

Papers

Books and Other Publications

  • 若手研究者必携 : 比較教育学のライフストーリー : 研究スキル×キャリア形成

    鴨川, 明子, 牧, 貴愛, 須藤, 玲( Part： Contributor, 第7章)

    東信堂  2023.03 ISBN: 9784798918501

Presentations

  • An in-depth exploration of tutors’ critical incidents

    Nguyen DinhThien Bao, Imaizumi Naoko, Oyamada Mami, Nishikado Misaki

    The 12th Waseda University Writing Forum 

    Presentation date： 2025.03

  • The Boundary between Political Party Neutrality and "Überparteilichkeit": Focusing on the Reconstruction of the Federal Agency for National Information and its Development into the Federal Agency for Civic Education.

    Naoko Imaizumi

    The 60th Japan Comparative Education Society (JCES) Annual Conference 

    Event date：
    2024.06
    　
    　

  • Herausforderungen und Potenziale von Gedenkstätten für politische Bildung

    IMAIZUMI, Naoko

    Poster Ausstellung: Remembering the War―How Mueseums and Memorials of WW II Resonate with the Youth in Tokyo and Munich 

    Event date：
    2023.12
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  • Kritik am Neutralitätsgebot in Japan mit Hilfe der Konzepte Überparteilichkeit und Kontroversität in Deutschland

    Naoko Imaizumi

    Society for Civic Education Didactics and Civic Youth and Adult Education 

    Presentation date： 2023.06

    Event date：
    2023.06
    　
    　

  • ”Ueberparteilichkeit” in the Federal Agency for Civic Education in Germany: The Development of its Conceptual Function

    Naoko IMAIZUMI

    The 58th Japan Comparative Education Society (JCES) Annual Conference 

    Presentation date： 2022.06

    Event date：
    2022.06
    　
    　

  • The Praxis of Civic Education based on "Kontroversität" in Germany. Education to Protect Democracy

    Naoko IMAIZUMI

    The 31th Annual Conference Japanese Association for Civic Education 

    Presentation date： 2021.06

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Research Projects

  • A Study of the Continuity of Civic Education Based on Pluralism in Germany in the Pre-War and Post-War Periods

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

    Project Year :

    2024.07
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    2026.03
     

  • 戦争を記憶する－博物館や追悼施設は若者に訴えることができているか，東京とミュンヘンで考える

    ドイツ学術交流会  DAAD-早稲田大学パートナーシップ・プログラム

    Project Year :

    2022.04
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    2024.03
     

    近藤孝弘, ガブリエレ・フォークト

  • A Study of "Ueberparteilichkeit" in German Civic Education: An Analysis of the Process of Establishing the Federal Agency for Civic Education.

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Research Fellowships of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Young Scientists

    Project Year :

    2021.04
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    2024.03
     

    Naoko Imaizumi

  • "Ueberparteilichkeit" in German Civic Education

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  JSPS Overseas Challenge Program for Young Researchers

    Project Year :

    2022.10
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    2023.09
     

  • Research fellowships - short fellowships, 2024

    DAAD 

    Naoko Imaizumi

 

Academic Activities

  • 第2回ドイツ研究者ネットワーク交流会

    Other

    JSPSボン研究連絡センター  

    2023.09
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  • 第8回インヴィジブル・カレッジ・セミナー～濵谷先生に聞く～

    Academic society, research group, etc.

    日本比較教育学会若手ネットワーク委員会  

    2022.08
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Internal Special Research Projects

  • ドイツにおける政治的中立性の代替概念に関する研究

    2024  

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    This research focuses on the differences in how “neutrality” is understood in civic education in Germany and Japan, and examines what these differences signify. In Germany, the idea of "political neutrality" is considered incompatible with the objectives of civic education that aims to promote democracy. Instead of "political neutrality," the terms Überparteilichkeit (a term similar in nuance to non-partisanship, but more precisely meaning "above the parties") and Kontroversität (controversy) are employed.In this study, the corpus for the concept of Überparteilichkeit consists of official documents related to the establishment of civic education institutions (e.g., Reichszentrale für Heimatdienst, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung), while the corpus for Kontroversität is drawn from educational magazines. A discourse analysis is then conducted to examine how the concepts of Überparteilichkeit and Kontroversität are used in contrast to "neutrality," how they function, and how they have influenced the nature of civic education as reflected in these documents.1.    With regard to the concept of Überparteilichkeit, additional research was conducted at the Federal Archives in Koblenz. The corpus is now nearly complete, and the analyses of both the Weimar period and the period from 1945 to 1970 have been completed. As a result, the full scope of the meaning and usage of Überparteilichkeit has been clarified.2.    The research I conducted this year on the concept of Kontroversität involved collecting materials and compiling a corpus. Specifically, I visited the German National Library, the University Library of Freiburg, the University Library of Mainz, and the State Library of Baden-Württemberg to collect relevant materials. During these visits, I gathered articles from educational magazines published prior to World War II (i.e., between 1918 and 1933) that had not yet been included. Additionally, I collected materials from civic education magazines published between 1945 and 1965. Although a detailed analysis has not yet been conducted, preliminary findings suggest that "neutrality" was a theme in educational discourse prior to the Second World War. However, in the immediate postwar period, political content was largely absent from education, and the concept of neutrality was not a topic of discussion. .